Writing a children’s sermon on Matthew 21:23-32 brings a particular challenge, even if it’s a familiar one. How to find a kid-friendly facet of the text to focus on? There’s a parable in the second half of the passage. Usually I’d gravitate to that, especially since it includes two kids — though we don’t know […]
A Children’s Sermon on Matthew 20:1-16
The big challenge to bringing you a children’s sermon on Matthew 20:1-16 is finding a way to make it really kid friendly. In part this is just me grousing, or having a momentary failure of imagination. But like anyone who writes, I have times when I know what I have to write but I find […]
A Children’s Sermon on Matthew 18:15-20
Here’s a children’s sermon on Matthew 18:15-20 for Proper 18(23) of lectionary Year A. I’m glad to be back writing for you, though it was also lovely to take August off. Taking that break means I have a few gaps in the series of children’s sermons on the Gospel readings of Year A. I’ll catch […]
A Children’s Sermon on Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 — Wheat and Weeds
Wildflowers of Palestine. Tares and Wheat 1900 (public domain) Prelude for Pastors (and Parents) My children’s sermon on Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 arrives in time for the eighth Sunday after Pentecost. This year that is “Proper 11(16)” in the Revised Common Lectionary. But you don’t need to be a lectionary preacher to use it. It will […]
A Children’s Sermon on John 14:15-25
Prelude Though it is arriving out of sequence, here is my children’s sermon on John 14:15-21. I already posted a children’s sermon on this Sunday’s Gospel text. (You can find it here; And you can find the Monday Meditation on that text here.) So this one is part of my ongoing mop-up of texts I […]